Originally posted on Pride's Purge:
Leading Brexiter Tories have revealed their plans to allow private US firms to take over NHS hospitals. They are also planning for the UK to adopt lower US environmental and food safety regulations and allow imports of things that are presently banned for health reasons such as chlorinated chicken…
Month: October 2018
Wealthiest tenth of households are ‘overwhelmingly’ the biggest beneficiaries of Hammond’s budget tax cuts
Originally posted on Politics and Insights:
The Resolution Foundation is a non-partisan think tank that works to improve the living standards of those in Britain on low to middle incomes. The foundation’s initial comments on Hammond’s budget: https://twitter.com/resfoundation/status/1056969156741029889 https://twitter.com/resfoundation/status/1057034168935288832 The big print giveth and the small print taketh away. Torsten Bell, director of the Resolution Foundation,…
GPs told to consider making fit notes conditional on patients having appointment with work coach
Originally posted on Politics and Insights:
Thanks to @CarolePavlova76 for the copy of a patient work coach letter to GPs. One of the most worrying comments is that despite claiming the work coach service is voluntary, and that if a patient refuses to engage “it won’t affect any benefit they get”, the letter then goes on…
Authoritarian Brexit secretary refuses to give evidence to Parliament
Originally posted on Politics and Insights:
The Lords European Union Committee has written to Dominic Raab MP, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, urging him to engage with Committees in order to facilitate scrutiny of the Withdrawal Agreement and political statement on the future UK-EU relationship. See: 23 October 2018 – Letter to…
This charity chief broke the Tory gagging order on the effect of Universal Credit. Her words are heartbreaking – and infuriating
The lady in the video below is Ellie Waugh, chief executive of the charity Humanity Torbay, which aims to help the vulnerable secure homes, jobs and training. Part of that mission has involved working with the Conservative government – but this has come with strings attached, including a demand not to criticise Tory policies such […]
Healthcare is a human right, but now it feels like a privilege
Originally posted on Little lady, big voice:
Last night my partner was very ill. This normally fit and well 30-something doubled up in agony (a score of 9 he said) and I felt pretty useless. I don’t drive so I couldn’t make the trip up to hospital, and to be frank it would have been…
My response to Brandon Lewis when he invited me to support the Conservatives
Originally posted on Politics and Insights:
I was surprised to get the following email from Brandon Lewis, the Conservative party chairman, yesterday. I’ve published my response below the email. My response: I want to share some news with you Brandon, I won’t ever be supporting the Conservatives. The government claims that austerity will ensure that…
Roll out of new DWP computer system causes confusion and worry. Universal Credit destroys life’s.
Originally posted on The poor side of life:
Dear readers, it’s Thursday again so here’s this weeks blog. I hope that you are all ok, I do think about you all and wonder how you are coping. I wish that I had a magic wand to stop this madness, but there isn’t one and I…
MP asks government to investigate judge who jailed anti-fracking protesters
Originally posted on DRILL OR DROP?:
Gordon Marsden (right) outside the Preston New Road shale gas site with shadow business secretary, Rebecca Long-Bailey. The justice secretary has been urged to investigate whether the judge who jailed three anti-fracking protesters last month followed an official code of conduct. Blackpool South MP, Gordon Marsden, tabled three parliamentary question…
The day the women fighting for their pensions brought Westminster to a standstill
Originally posted on Westminster Confidential:
50s women reclaiming the street outside Parliament CROSS POSTED ON BYLINE.COM A decade ago this would have made headline news. Hundreds of 50s women deprived of their pensions until they reach 65 or 66 blocked the road in Parliament Square for over an hour yesterday. The police – just five…
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 